Daniela Elza lived on three continents before immigrating to Canada in 1999. Her latest poetry collections are the broken boat (2020) and slow erosions (2020). Her work has won numerous contests and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net Anthology multiple times. She placed second in the 2022 Ken Belford Poetry Prize for Social Justice. She is a founding member of the Place Mattering Matters Collective and advocates for affordable housing in her community in Vancouver, located on the unceded territories of the x¿m¿¿k¿¿y¿¿m (Musqueam), S¿wx¿wú7mesh (Squamish), and s¿lilw¿tä (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.